Melissa Chen
Business Intelligence Engineer at Cornell University
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Chen is a Business Intelligence Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building data products at Amazon and teaching fairness and data-driven web application courses at Cornell. She blends strong analytical skills in Python, SQL, R, pandas, and Tableau with practical experience designing dashboards and defining KPIs that drive stakeholder decisions. Her background spans research at Cornell’s Social Media Lab—where she co-authored work for ACM CHI and crafted data-driven communication for vulnerable populations—to hands-on UI/UX design and web development. Melissa is comfortable moving projects from exploratory analysis and data engineering into polished visualizations and scalable dashboards. She is pursuing advanced studies in Information Science while mentoring students, reflecting a rare mix of production BI delivery, academic rigor, and design sensibility.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Science, Minor in Statistical Science, Bachelor's degree, Information Science, Minor in Statistical Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (10)
spotify9
spotlight8
blacklight7
hierarchical6
plugin5
infrastructure3
dspace2
digital-signage1
user-interface1
angular1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cul-it/johnson-library-cornell-edu-theme
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:295 pushes in 1 year 10 months
cul-it/library-website-branding
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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